Recovering from a left wrist harm, Australia captain Pat Cummins on Tuesday stated he’s eyeing a return to worldwide cricket throughout his facet’s three-match ODI collection towards India in late September, forward of the World Cup.
Cummins, who fractured his wrist through the fifth Ashes Check on the Oval (July 27-31), has been suggested relaxation for six weeks.
The tempo bowler is ready to overlook Australia’s five-match ODI collection towards South Africa between September 7 and 17. Australia will play ODIs towards India on September 22, 24 and 27.
“I will head over to South Africa on the back-end of that leg. However we’re most likely wanting extra at these one-dayers (towards India) forward of the World Cup.
“It should not be too dangerous. One other few weeks and it will be proper,” stated Cummins, sounding hopeful of him taking part in within the World Cup to be held in India from October 5 and November 19.
Cummins stated he would most likely assess his position as ODI captain after the World Cup.
“The captaincy for the ODIs, we have sort of shared round just a little bit. We’ll recover from there, and take a look at that,” he stated.
Cummins stated Mitchell Marsh, who has been appointed as Australia’s T20I captain, is the logical option to succeed him within the position of the ODI chief.
“The great factor is we now have a couple of choices. (Mitchell Marsh) might be the obvious one if he is doing the T20s as nicely. Off the sphere, he is only a nice people-person. His power’s infectious, he is nice to hold round with, at all times good enjoyable.”
Cummins had taken over as Australia’s 50-over format captain final yr from Aaron Finch however since then he had led solely in two of the six ODIs they performed.
He missed one match towards England as Josh Hazlewood stepped in.
Steve Smith led Australia in a three-match ODI collection towards India earlier this yr as Cummins returned house following the dying of his mom.
